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If you want to develop a game, you have to think first about the genre to develop the game for. Should it be a puzzle game / board game or an action game? After answering this question you have a lot of follow up questions to answer.

If you choose an action game (Jump&run) you have to take care of a lot more things than in a turn based game. You always have to take care that your programming is really performant, to achieve high frame rates. In a turn-based-game it’s less important as the user usually doesn’t notice if a calculation takes a little longer. A good overview on this topic is documented in this article, which is unfortunately only available in German language: Real Time vs Turn Based Games.

My first Android-Game-Project was such an Action Game. But the performance itself wasn’t the biggest problem for me (after I found some good 2d Game Engines). The biggest problem has been the level design, which take a large amount of time. That is why I postponed this project. After the start phase the level design took up about 80% of the development time.

Something nearly every classic game needs, is the display of a score. A simple text doesn’t look “game like” – so a normal “textsprite” wasn’t my choice for displaying the score.

In this article you find my implementation a score-display class for e3roid based on animated sprites. I could also have used “TiledSprites”, but I still have the vision of letting the numbers change with animation – but I haven’t started implementing this yet.

To use the source code below you first need a e3roid body. Best is to extend the code of the Tutorial “Handle touch events” on the e3roid-page. If you follow the instructions below, the course will be increased with each touch-action.